There is freedom in good health insurance for all stat : Detroit Free Press

Lauren LisiHuntington WoodsPeople forget or never realized how long it took to get a health care plan for all Americans. Lenore S. LitwinSouth LyonThere is an answer to the health care/health care insurance problem in this country. As citizens, we are not truly free if we do not have realistic access to good health care, one Free Press reader wrote. This version of freedom is packaged and sold to less affluent Americans because, for many of them, obtaining health care currently requires hard choices. Freedom should be the ability to choose to leave your current job and start a new business, knowing that you can buy health insurance, and that pre-existing conditions will not affect your ability to obtain or keep that insurance.




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Column: 'The Medicare Maven' on Ivy's health insurance horror story

There is no defense for the way she and countless other patients are being treated by the U.S. health care system. Likewise, advocacy groups have been creating consumer-generated health ranking systems, price tools and other measures of consumer health care costs. Translating this pocketbook power into true clout will require bringing consumerism and price transparency to health care. Most consumers could once afford to be blissfully ignorant of what health care cost. We just paid our insurance premiums or, in many cases, our employers did, and thus we had little idea of actual health care costs.


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